Tegucigalpa, August 4 (RHC)-- The family of Honduran environmental defender Berta Cáceres, murdered in March 2016, has called for 25 years in prison for Roberto David Castillo, co-perpetrator of this crime, and to prosecute the masterminds behind her assassination.... More
Brasilia, August 4 (RHC)-- Brazil surpassed 558,000 deaths on Tuesday and approached 20 million confirmed coronavirus infections since the beginning of the pandemic.... More
Miami, August 4 (RHC)-- The U.S. state of Florida won’t put any state money into the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s unless it reverses a decision to stop selling ice cream in the occupied West Bank and contested East Jerusalem, Governor Ron DeSantis said Tuesday.... More
Dallas, August 4 (RHC)-- American Airlines Group Inc. and Spirit Airlines Inc. canceled hundreds more flights Tuesday, stranding thousands of passengers and stoking concerns that crew shortages are adding to problems that initially were caused by weather and technology issues.... More
Brasilia, August 4 (RHC)-- Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) has requested the Supreme Court of Justice to open a process to President Jair Bolsonaro for his comments and sayings against the current voting system, whose transparency the president has repeatedly questioned.... More
Minneapolis, August 4 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Minnesota, the Giniw Collective is reporting at least 20 water protectors were brutally arrested over the weekend — including Indigenous lawyer and activist Tara Houska — as resistance to the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline continues. ... More
Beijing, August 4 (RHC)-- In climate news, Chinese officials say over 300 people were killed during record-shattering floods that devastated Henan province last month. That’s more than triple the number previously reported.... More
Miami, August 4 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Florida, five Miami Beach police officers have been suspended from their jobs and criminally charged after they were filmed repeatedly kicking and body-slamming a Black man in handcuffs, before brutally assaulting a bystander who filmed the incident.... More
Washington, August 4 (RHC)-- In the United States, immigrant justice groups are suing the Joe Biden administration over its use of Title 42 — a Trump-era policy that allows for the expedited deportations of asylum seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, citing so-called public health concerns during the pandemic. ... More
New Delhi, August 4 (RHC)-- Savitri Devi has been searching for work since she lost her job at a garment factory in India’s capital New Delhi, along with half her coworkers, when sales plummeted at the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year.... More
Washington, August 4 (RHC)-- The U.S. District of Columbia’s police department has announced that two more police officers who responded to the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol have died by suicide, bringing to four the number of known suicides by officers on duty at the building that day.... More
Moscow, August 4 (RHC)-- France’s National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) has confirmed that three French journalists had their devices infected with the Israeli spyware Pegasus. And whistleblower Edward Snowden called the development “enormous.”... More
Ramallah, August 3 (RHC)-- Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called upon the international community to put an end to the Israeli regime’s policies of persecution, racism, and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in the occupied East al-Quds neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, which are being carried out in order to make way for extremist Jewish settlers.... More
Managua, August 3 (RHC)-- The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) registered the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, as its candidate for the general elections of November 7.... More
Auckland, August 3 R(HC)-- New Zealand’s Human Rights Commission has termed the country’s housing crisis a “massive human rights failure” as it launched an inquiry into the issue. Soaring property values have led to a spike in homelessness.... More
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